The Pre-Mycenaean Pottery of the Mainland

A. J. B. Wace; C. W. Blegen

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The Pre-Mycenaean Pottery of the Mainland

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013

A. J. B. Wace and

C. W. Blegen

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Although as long ago as 1876 Schliemann's excavations at Mycenae revealed to us the prehistoric civilisation of the Peloponnese, it is only comparatively recently that its pre-Mycenaean culture has become known. For Crete the epoch-making excavations of Sir Arthur Evans have made clear to us the long pottery sequence which illustrates the development of prehistoric civilisation in that island from the end of neolithic times, through the great age of the palace of Knossos, to its decline and fall in the Third Late Minoan period. For the Cyclades the pottery sequence from Phylakopi, with other finds, provides us with a series parallel to the Cretan; and for Thessaly, too, a provisional series has been established. But for the history of civilisation in the Peloponnese and East-Central Greece during the long prehistoric age the only evidence we had was that from Mycenae, Tiryns, and one or two other small sites, all of which illustrate the last phases only.

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Information: Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 22 , November 1918 , pp. 175 - 189

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068245400009916 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1918

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^{page 182 note 1} Found in the last and still unpublished German excavations of 1916.

^{page 182 note 2} Sherds from Schliemann's excavations in the National Museum, Athens.

^{page 182 note 3} Sherds from the first excavation in the National Museum, Athens.

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^{page 182 note 6} Sir Arthur Evans brings out this point in his forthcoming book, The Palace of Minos, i., of which he has generously allowed us to read some of the proofs.

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^{page 185 note 4} Furtwängler and Loeschcke, op. cit., Pls. VIII. 43, IX. 44.

^{page 185 note 5} Furtwängler and Loeschcke, op. cit., Pls. X., XI., Nos. 46, 47, 51, 52, 53.

^{page 185 note 6} Furtwängler and Loeschcke, op. cit., p. 54, § 3a.

^{page 186 note 1} In his forthcoming work The Palace of Minos.

^{page 186 note 2} Phylakopi, Pl. XXI. A beaked jug of the Sixth Shaft Grave type was also found at Phylakopi (op. cit. p. 159).

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